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Key promises of the WA election campaign

* $560 million to upgrade high schools, $520 million for a new train line in the city's south and $190 million tackling meth, plus $55 million in payroll tax cuts.

* More than $2.8 billion in promises will be part-funded by the $3 billion in proceeds the Libs say they will get privatising 51 per cent sale of Western Power.

LABOR

* Labor will stop Roe 8 and the Perth Freight Link, which they say will free up $1.7 billion. The Metronet rail project will cost $2.9 billion, which it says includes $400 million of Commonwealth funding that the federal government says it cannot have.

* $465 million on tourism marketing, $381 million for schools, including both new and upgraded infrastructure, $40 million on "medi-hotels" for recovering patients and $60 million for a meth border force in WA police.

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* Mark McGowan says that as premier on his first day in office, he would tear up the skilled migration list to protect jobs for WA locals. He has also promised to keep Western Power in government hands.

THE NATIONALS

* Leader Brendon Grylls' controversial proposed mining tax would involve increasing a 25 cent a tonne production rental fee that BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto pay to $5 a tonne. He says it would raise $7 billion over the next four years.